Dear Diary,
Day 10 of #40Day_Zip_it_Challenge
A week ago I had a conversation with someone. One of us said, “You don’t know my heart!” Coming to think of it, you can say that but I think it is easy to know someone’s heart by the kind of words that come from the mouth. Actually you can measure a person’s character by their speech.
Come with me to Proverbs 10:11. It says, “The mouth of the righteous is a well of life.” A well/fountain is the source from which something proceeds or is supplied. It is a spring of water issuing from the earth. The mouth as such, is an overflow of what’s in the heart and in effect of its flow, it refreshes and impregnates the surrounding desolateness.
The same way a well nourishes and refreshes its surrounding so is the mouth of the righteous. The mouth of the righteous blesses and enhances lives; it carries Good News and feeds many, “The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense,” v. 21. Additionally, “From the mouth of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be silenced,” v. 31. A righteous man knows acceptable words and speaks them appropriately-at the right time and at the right place. “The lips of the righteous know what finds favor, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse,” v.32.
Now, RIGHTEOUSNESS is what makes the mouth a fountain/well of life; in addition, what is STORED up in the heart, “The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin,” v. 14.
You see, God cares so much about my mouth.
Is your mouth a well of life? "Help me God!"
Regards,
NzakuNashipae
NzakuNashipae
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